On Saturday morning, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Herat and surrounding villages in western Afghanistan. More than 2,400 people were killed, thousands were injured and many are still trapped, reports The Washington Post. Several villages have “completely perished,” said Janan Saiq, a spokesman for the Taliban-run Ministry of Disaster Management, to the Post.
There’s a tussle going on at the Afghan embassy in New Delhi. The Taliban regime wants the earlier ambassador appointed by the previous Ashraf Ghani government to go; it wants its own person in charge. India is in a spot
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